Unless they’re rich or know the right people.

I don’t even understand the court’s pretended rationale:

Excerpt: The problem, the court’s majority suggested, was that the first vote on the amendment in the General Assembly, which would authorize Democrats to redraw the map, occurred days before last fall’s legislative elections — meaning that some Virginians who cast their ballots early did so without knowing how their state lawmakers would vote on the new map.

That, the justices wrote, violated the process laid out in the State Constitution.

“This constitutional violation incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy,” the majority wrote.

Me again: Huh? Gonna need a better alibi that that.

Excerpt: Any debate about the normalizing of violent political rhetoric can’t ignore Trump’s role in spreading it, said Jeffrey A. Engel, founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.

The head of state, he said, “traditionally sets the tone for civility and morality in a nation.”

Excerpt: Four months after masked federal agents shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis, New York leaders announced a plan to implement some of the strictest rules for immigration officials of any state in the country.

The package, which was included in the state budget deal announced on Thursday, prohibits state and local officials from entering into formal or informal cooperation agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and bars law enforcement agents from wearing masks.

The rules also prohibit ICE from using local jails to house detainees and from searching New Yorkers’ homes, hospitals, churches and schools without a warrant signed by a judge.

Me again: Sounds swell in principle, but the Secret Police have no principles and won’t obey New York laws.

Excerpt: Mr. Auerhahn said he was also concerned by Mr. Trump’s decision to drive his motorcade across the pool’s surface on Thursday night to hold a press event highlighting the renovations. That might have put huge amounts of weight on the notoriously leaky — and newly repaired — joints between its concrete slabs.

“If it were my project, I’d require an immediate inspection,” Mr. Auerhahn said.

Amusing factoid: Amy Klobuchar helped plan & spoke at Trump’s second inauguration, and she’s so proud of it that the coverage is reprinted at her Senate website. Klobuchar-style Dems, which is most Dems, are not the opposition; they’re the accommodation for fascism.

Might succeed. Might not. But here’s a politician actually trying to do something to help little people, and that’s pretty damned cool.

Holy shit! A major corporation discovers testicles (after paying Trump regime a kickback)?

Amazon is essentially the new international infrastructure; American capitalism is Amazon. The company should’ve been broken up twenty years ago, but tomorrow would be good, too.

All high-level economic talk is incomprehensible to me, but I can comprehend enough to say this isn’t a good trend.

Why exactly the fuckdoodle were driverless cars ever except?

Oh, this’ll be funny if we survive.

And your tithes and offerings make it all possible.